AIR Vocabulary

The key points made in a text; the main ideas

• Supporting details

• Central idea

• Text evidence

• Summarize

Telling the main points briefly; to tell the main points in a short, simple, and clear way

• Generate

• Demonstrate

• Argue

• Summarize

To describe, explain, or show by examples or reasoning

• Demonstrate

• Argue

• Prompt

• Evidence

To present reasons for or against something

• Agree

• Argue

• Prompt

• Phrase

To create or produce something

• Creative

• Summarize

• Generate

• Prompt

A question or instruction that tells you what you’re supposed to write

• Teacher

• Prompt

• Response

• Multiple Choice

A sequence of two or more words; not a complete sentence

• Poem

• Prompt

• Text Feature

• Phrase

The position of the narrator in relation to the story

• Point of view/ Perspective

• Narrator

• Characters

• Explanation

Items in nonfiction stories that help readers better understand the information (ex. Chart, Diagram)

• Illustrations

• Text Features

• Structures

• Cover

To point out the differences or unique characteristics between similar objects

• Distinguish

• Evaluate

• Analyze

• Venn Diagram